Published November 15, 1989
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Journal article
Statistical fluctuations as the origin of nontopological solitons
- 1. Astronomy and Astrophysics Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
- 2. NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (USA)
Description
Nontopological solitons can be formed during a phase transition in the early Universe as long as some net charge can be trapped in regions of a false vacuum. It has been previously suggested that a particle-antiparticle asymmetry would provide a source for such trapped charge. We point out that, for the model and parameters considered, statistical fluctuations provide a much larger concentration of charge and are, therefore, the dominant source of charge fluctuations in solitogenesis
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, D
- Journal Volume
- 40
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 3529-3532
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21029838
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ASYMMETRY; FIELD THEORIES; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY; SCALAR FIELDS; SOLITONS; STATISTICAL MODELS; UNIVERSE; VACUUM STATES
- Descriptors DEC
- FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUASI PARTICLES